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Dave Leitao, the former UConn assistant who spent more than 15 years coaching alongside Jim Calhoun, is returning as head coach of the DePaul men's basketball team, a job he held for three years in the mid 2000s. The Chicago Tribune reports that Leitao will make his return 10 seasons after he left DePaul for Virginia, where he coached four seasons. Since Virginia, Leitao has been head coach of the NBA Development League's Maine Red Claws and an assistant at Missouri and, most recently, Tulsa. Leitao got his start playing under Jim Calhoun at Northeastern from 1978 to 1982. Two years later, in 1984, he joined Calhoun as an assistant and followed him when Calhoun got...

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